NORTHWIND Announces 'ResEze' Real-time Web Reservation Facility & 'Maestro Enterprise' Corporate Centralized Solution at HITEC 2000

The current challenge in today's competitive marketplace is to find the most efficient and cost-effective means of accessing, integrating and distributing corporate information across the hotel organization. Northwind's Maestro™ suite of products was designed to address this challenge. In addition to its unmatched real-time processing performance, this management-oriented solution far exceeds industry standards as currently defined and continues to bring PMS, sales and catering, accounts receivable, club/spa management and work order maintenance to the forefront. The focus on components such as client services, activities scheduling and billing, customized packages, tee-time and powerful yield management and integration gives clients analysis tools to target business data critical to their success.

Northwind can custom fit solutions to suit client's specific needs. Employing user configuration options, each user can have various options implemented without inheriting the specific requirements of other users. Leading edge technology applications are available for Windows® and UNIX/Linux technology in client/server and thin client options. All of Northwind's products offer multi-language and multi-text capabilities for International functionality.

"Maestro really took us to the next level because of all the flexibility in their system from their drill down capability to the yield management functionality. The Northwind management staff was extremely flexible in making any enhancements to the product during our installs and up to present time."

Rodney Thiel, Director of IT for Benchmark Hospitality.

Northwind has also introduced ResEze™ to enable hotels to better exploit the opportunities of the Internet. ResEze™'s unparalleled ability for on-line real-time direct access via Internet/Intranet to property inventory, availability, yield rating and instant confirmation not only benefits hoteliers but also their business "partners", including travel agents, tour operators and wholesalers.

The newest suite of products, Maestro Enterprise™, focuses on corporate and centralized operations. Monterey Peninsula Inns chose to implement Maestro Enterprise™ for its five properties in California because of its ability to handle and fully integrate global reservations (Internet/Intranet), centralized client database management and centralized accounts receivable management. Global sales and catering and centralized travel agency management are also available. Maestro Enterprise™ centralizes client and property management at the corporate level, providing access to data and yield management in real-time. Sales can view room space availability at any linked property in any location, and make informed business decisions when booking business. The database not only serves as a central source for data such as enterprise reporting, customer tracking and contract confirmations, it also offers analysis and corporate data mining opportunities. Maestro Enterprise can be integrated with the Maestro suite of products.

Committed to excellence in sales and service, Northwind provides operational support 24-hours-a-day, seven days week. Support is available by phone, fax and email/Internet.

About Northwind

Northwind has emerged as a formidable global provider of software and eCommerce solutions to satisfy the requirements of virtually any size hotel, resort, meeting/conference center or corporate headquarters. Northwind's Maestro and Maestro Enterprise, complete web-enabled suites of PMS, Sales & Catering and Corporate solutions, are recognized as the multi-platform (Windows/NT/Unix/Linux) solutions of choice for progressive and demanding organizations. Northwind's ability to provide clients with the technology solutions that fit their operational and management needs has helped it to build a prestigious list of international clients supported by the company's expanding organization of dealers and distributors in the United States, the Caribbean, South Africa and Europe. A total solution provider with exceptional industry expertise, Northwind offers leading-edge technologies, superior training, and unparalleled support.

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CONTACT: Northwind

Audrey MacRae, Director of Marketing Communications

905-940-1923 x-246